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Departmental Buildings

Volume 479: debated on Monday 1 September 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on which buildings occupied by his Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies the lease will be due for renewal in the next four years. (214664)

The Department has no agencies to report on.

The details of the buildings occupied by the Department’s non-departmental public bodies where the lease is due for renewal in the next four years are given as follows.

Properties with lease renewals due before 30 June 2012

Occupier/address

Date of expiry

CAFCASS

Brimington Road, Chesterfield

30 October 2008

Charter House, Ilford

24 December 2008

Edward House, Stockport

31 March 2009

Printing House Street, Birmingham

24 September 2009

87 Manchester Road, Rochdale

31 October 2009

Southway, Bedford

24 November 2009

Archway Tower, London

21 December 2009

Southgate, Chichester

1 February 2010

Gough Street, Wolverhampton

31 March 2010

Lathom Road, Southport

31 March 2010

Lesser Knowlethorpe

12 October 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his Department's policy is on improving the energy efficiency of the buildings which it (a) rents and (b) owns; what changes there have been in the energy efficiency of such buildings in the last (i) five and (ii) 10 years; and whether his Department has adopted targets on energy efficiency improvements in the buildings it occupies over the next (A) five and (B) 10 years. (221085)

The Department for Children, Schools and Families is committed to meet the requirements of all environmental legislation; and continually improve its environmental performance through the regular review of its management system. The Department's energy efficiency policy does not differentiate between (a) rented and (b) owned properties.

Changes to energy efficiency:

(i) Since 2002/03 a reduction in energy efficiency of 7.5 per cent.

(ii) Since1 1999/00 a reduction in energy efficiency of 8.2 per cent.

1 Data is not available prior to this period.

Information on energy efficiency has been taken from the latest published “Sustainable Development in Government Return” and covers the years 1999/00 to 2006/07. The information from this return is for the Department's buildings as a whole and cannot be split into individual buildings. Only buildings carrying out central Government business are included within this return.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families has adopted Sustainable Development in Government targets on energy efficiency and progress is monitored through the Department's environmental management system, encompassing current and any new (a) rented and (b) owned properties.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which organisations have received (a) free and (b) discounted room hire from (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies in each of the last five years; and what the commercial value of the discount was in each case. (221579)